The Sun. — London, England, 1810-07-05 00:00:00

, NIA! LS. • • z v an— 1 Lisbon, I Cadiz, I Dublin, 3 IV at.:rford. - t,uttenburgti. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWILLVII. O'CLOCK. Consols for Opening 71 Red. Ann. - 69 70 £ E S U 401.1LM QUIS DICERE FALSUSI A.UDEA ? L 0 N ..D U iv, TH'URSDAY, JULY 5, 1810. We this morning received Poriuggfie Papers to the 18th ; they-bring no news of importance, but it seems generally to be expe6ted that a battle will sp4edily - take place. the French have . begun the bombardment of Ciudad Roderigo, and it is said 11 . 1 .kSiE - Ni 7 sarmyiiiireOeivedcOusiderable reinforce ments, -. • Nolting of importance - had 'Occurred at Cadiz . when the last accounts , catne , away. It is reported, but . we think with very littltoprobability, that a part of the besieging airy has been sent to reinforce MASSENA. Our force, in the late action with the Neapolitan Navy, consisted . only of the Spartan frigate, of 38 guns ; that of the enemy, of a 42-gUn frigate, a corvette of 28 zuns, two brigs, of 8 and 12 guns, and seven gun-boats, of 7 guns each. The. ene my's frigate "was nearly cut to pieces, the cori -vette was : , distbasted, and one of the brigs takerf.. —The enemy had 154 killed, and 316 wounded. We had 10 killed and 22 wounded. Captain BRENTON. w wuundeJ, but is out of tinger. TllO KING came to town yesterday about twelve .o'clock, from ‘Vindsor, in hi's travelling carriage, es corted by a party of the Light Horse. His ,IVIA ibiSTY w 4.3 received at the Queen's Palace, by the Dukes of Youit, KENT, CAMBRIDGE, and Cum-- boon after two o'clock the King held .a private Ttiree, which was attencltd by Eals Caniden ' nathurst, arid,Liverpool ; Lords Mulgr ave , IleatlitiOd, and Rivers, (Lord in waiting); Sir David Dud das ; Mews: Percevai, Ryder, York, and kalkner, and West ( G room in waiting). • The following had the honour of -being presented to his MAJESTY. • SitAiew Dalrvinple, on being appointed Co. I,3riel : of the'i9th Reziinencot root. ,Captain Noorton, on ins apponitinent lobe Surveyor-Cc nerd. (41 tilitOrdnance. . . . '-- Lirdi-Col. Paula, Colebroke RoyAl Artillery on his v . . „pointnienf. and his return from Ceylon. ,;,Ford ShOlicl4 3 42p satinipLlO_hi s .litle. . . .___ Mijor and Lieut.-Col. feirivtt, First Regiment of Life Gua;tis on Iti4 promotion." Al.idanfe'C`ATAbatsn. has entered into .a . new et)- gagetnent. with the" Managers of the Opera House, for h,r perfortnance at the King's Theatre during the course-of the next season,. It is. with much. pleasure we learn that M. CRUX ER was so much better to-day, as to be•ableto attend the Board of Adrniralty' for a slort Such au attention to public-duty, after so dangerous. an accident, is highly honOinable . to his character. The following are extrads from some of the coni— munications, with which We hae been favoured by yesterday's Mails : • " CADIZ, JUNE 13.—We are sorry that it is not in our power yet to confirm the defeat of the French General SILBAiriIA NI, by any 'later arrivals. We shortly expect favourable, news from the gallint O'DONNELL, though_at present we have none' to communicate. " The French - seem making preparations on the other side of the Bay, as if they meant to attack the City. We have reason to think that they have had *everal reinforcements wi'hin a late period, but the extent of them we cannot ascertain. As far as ap pearances go, they do not . seem to be much in creased. The stories of those who come over from the enemy must not be relied upon." • " CADIZ, JUNE 13.—The new scheme of 800- NAFARTE to divide. the Spaniards will not succeed. With regard to our civil,affairs, England has but one line to pursue—,to recommend and to insist upon the Cortes being convoked." The subsequent paragraph.frorn the - a/zeta del Co m ercio confirms an observation in the preceding extra&. It is asartained, that our enemies finding their valour insufficient to conquer us, ha►•e endeavoured to . sow the seeds of discord; not only among the peasantry, but among the skirmishing parties of An dalusia. To oppose this contrivance, a Provisional Junta of-Go'vermrhint has been established, coinpes ed of a Piesident and eight other Members, with a Secretary, and. proper Officers of _acknowledged pa triotism." The Gibraltar letters are to the .15th ult. They .comprise. accounts of some skirmishes in the neigh bourhood of 'i he Bay, and contain favourable re- Torts o: the operations ander General O'Dori NEL, in Cdtalonia. Persons who have lately arrived from Paris state, that the dismission of FoticiiE created a great sen sation in that city. The disgrace of this Minister vvAs very generally ascribed to the disgust excited in '33I:roNAPARTE by the frankness of his' answers on all occasions. In a late conversation with the Empe ror; he is said to have used some strong arguments in favour of peace ; ' for 'the pr oo f o f w hi c h h e re ferred to the general stagnation of trade, and the 'individual misery resulting from the' Conscription. This ." free speech " so mightily offended Niro- Leorsi, that he resolved to get instantly rid of. " so insolent a monitor," The letter of FoucuE, ac t eon% the appointment of. Rome, was said to. be 1.1 rotten . by the Duke of 13AssANo (Moret) from the dietation of BPONAPARTE, .and to - have been pre steit,:d to the . Ex-Minister to sign. . JQIINSTONI3 was received on Saturday last,' at h the most flattering applause in U'llidielly,'atid the Edinburgh Critics are warm in f:ritise of lit.. theatrical excellence. NAVAL NEW& ,Piyuoinn, JULY 3:—The following- are the transports that arrived here yesterday from Cadiz and Li,bon, under convoy of his Majesty's ships Jasper and ?'Milo[, viz. Eliza Tupper, Mint, Camilla, Parker, Rodney, Hutson, True Briton, Harding, Egbert, Anderson, Patty, FoWler,. Recovery, Hindmarsh, Charlotte, Alison, Harlequin, Hud son, Mary, Cray, and Juno, Blackburn, with 143 s French prisoners, the remainder of those taken in ;he,eneiny's men , . Of war at Cadiz. Great numbers died on the passage, particularly those on board the hospital transpor:,, ,where nearly one hundred fell viaims to a dreadful disease brought on by-close confinement on board the hulks at Ca;- diz. A number of SpaniSh troopS cane over in the transports as a guard over the French plkoners. The Camilla transport brought Over:a detach mentof the 2>3d Light Dragoons, also a number of sick, wounded, and invalid soldiers from the British Army in Portugal, there are als6 on I;oard the'trans. ports a number of deserters from the French Army. Part of the fleet sailed from Lisbon oh the 121 h of June, and the remainder on the 21st of June; they bring intelligence, that . a battle between the Bri- tish and French 'Armies was hourly expeoted to take place, and when the fleet left Lisbon accounts had been received there, that the hostile armies had 'ad vanced so'near each other, as to leave 'no donbt but .ere this 6 general battle must have been fought. , This morning, about nine o'clock, one of the spritsail boats, belonging to" Cawsand, in. working round the Ram Head, with a heavy sea, 'was swamp•- ed in a squall, and her Crew,' consisting of three persons, drowned. The follotviug are their names, viz. Jacob Handcock, 'Thomas Gray, and Wilkinson. Sailed his Majesty's ships Talbot and Jasper, with the whole of thp transports (except one) under con voy, for Portsmouth, that arrived here from Cadiz and Lisbon ; also sailed his Majesty's ship Savage for the West Indies. Passed up Channel last evening his Majesty's ship Caledonia, of 1 10 guns, from Cadiz;; also passed by this port to the Eastward a fleet, part of which consists of transports from Cadiz. Arrived the Prince of :Wales, COOTER ; Mary, GALESWORTHY ; Eliza, LAMB ; Union, TRENAMAN ; 4nn, HARVEY ; and eitbey, HANNAFORD, from Wales ; and the Unity, Et.r.ts, from B r i s t o l ; also a Portuguese ship from London, bound to Rio de .Ja.. heir° ; and the Disiiatc . h, ANSELL, from Waterford. His Majesty's ship Spire is not arrived here a s stated yesterday. This morning the Agent's transport; struck on a rock near. Drakes Islabd, and carried away .her rud der, by which accident sheis prevented from sailing with the convoy. • The Mariner gun -brig takes convoy to . the Downsi and the• Fervent gun -brig to Cadiz. I FALMOUTH, JULY 2.—Arrived - this day the Frart. cis Freeling packet, .Captain BELL; from Cadiz, Which 'she left on the 14th ult. ; on which day, alsc; sailed from thence, his Majesty's ship Triumph and Goshawk 'sloop of war, with 17 sail of merchant vesselS for England, she brings no particular news; Cadiz is considered as perfe&ly secure from the enemy; also arrived this day the Princess Charlotte packet, Captain KERB, with Mails from Lisbon, 15 days passage; yesterday spoke a brig transport, (0 U) with French prisoners.on board, from Cadiz for Plymouth ; parted convoy-6 days before; she also ,yeiterday spoke the homeward bound East India fleet, under-convoy of his Majesty's ship Rai sonable, St. Albans, and Charwell, all well.—News was hourly expected at Lisbon of a battle between the combined, British and Portuguese Armies under Lord W i nt.I,INGToN,- and the . French ArMY under General MASSENA ; a great number of deserters have come over from the enemy, and all agree in stating, that they are in much want of provisions and money. No packet was at Lisbon when the Princess ,Charlotte sailed. 1 Arrived this evening the Amclia. frigate from Plymbuth ; the Ainerican ship [Jetty, Captain MOORE, finrrk Virginia, 36. days for ortierN. A fleet of transports with Troops or Portugal are expected to arrive off this Port within course of the week to join them, waiting here ; part of the 16th Dragoons embark on to-morrow. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 4.--Carne in, this day his Majesty's ship Jasper, with a convoy from Lisbon, the greatest part of which are transports. • Arrived his Majesty's ships Fylla and Naiad, the former from Guernsey, and the latter from a cruize off- Cherhourah 2 • also the Sp ee d we ll an d v iai ve, t , THORN, from Bristol ; and the Two Brothers, LEWIS, from Lisbon. Sailed the Dido, TAYLOR, and kenus, CIIRESMAN, for Sunderland. DEAL, JULY 4.—Arrived and sailed for the River his Maje,ty's. ship Raisonable, with the Ocegn, De vaynes, Tottenham, and Streatham Indianlen, Cyr/is and Cumberland whalers; arrived also this morning his Majesty's brig Cracker, Lieut. LEACH, with the Clare lugger, which he has,seized, with a quantity of gold coin of this kingdom, 'gold bars and pearly onboard. Arrived and sailed for tit* Riyer, the BOShill, BARBEE, Erom Waterford. CU 7 11 T 01 KING'S BRECII, Juts 5. THE KING V. W. GOBSETT AND OrITERS. The AT - tontii,i-dENERAL prayed the judgment of the Court against Wm. •COBBIITT, It. 13iGstimr, Jonei BUDD, and I'. HANSARD, who were fieverziliz convialed of a gross and scandalous libel, by writing printing, and publishing the same. The defendants having appeared in Court, Lord ELL NBO OUG H proceeded,, and read.. the whole of the evidence, as given at the tri.il against Cobb'ett ; the other defendants having . triudgnient go by default. _.. ~ ~ ~ Mr. COBB.ETT admitted on the occasion, that he .- was the sole Pipprietor of: the Paper ii, Whidi the, said libel appeared. R. BAGSHAW put in an affidavit; :stating, that. , he was the publisher of the Piper; iii he had nothing whatsoever to do witti tlie • contents of any of the Papers which,:he , so published'; and (Wit he had no knowledge of the libel charged in the in formation, deitherdid he ever read it till the*ose cution was instituted against him. It proceeded further to entreat the considerate mercy i)fkbq Court, and solicited, if it were the intention of their Lord ships to place hint in a state of ccitifinenien' that, in consideration of 1n being afllided with a violent. asthma, - they would not send him a distance. fr o m • his friends. Mr. BUDD. also, [Ai: • its an affidavit ,stating, that he was. certainly-the- vender of the paper in ques tion, but • that lie , had no knowledge of the libel that it contained and ; he also implored . the mercy,. of the Court, on account of his. infirm • s tat e o f health, which was corroborated by a , respectable Surgeon. 4 T. HANSARD put in an affidavit, - Stating, that he was the Printer of the Paper, and had been em plpyed by COBBETT five years. That it was - quite out of his line to alter or suggest doubts as to the fitness or unfitness of the composition of these puhiicatiOns. That the manuscript copy of the Article complained Of, was sent him by COEBETT frOlll , Botlei, on the Friday before the publication, -and that he put it in to the hands of the compOsitors. He did not know it was of the offensive - description which it since ap pears to him to be, and for which he expressed ex treme contrition. •Mr..COBBETI; then addressed himself, to - the Court. He said, that sititated as he . was,.and in the hands of the. Court, he did not think it necessary to trespass on their valuable time at present. On a former occasion he had, exprtissed himself pretty. folly to their Lordships, and: h e now wou ld add, that • - neither of the other - three defendants trad'iflny thing to do with the offensive. publication, which was the subjeta of the present prosecution, and that lot him 'self he could 'say, that in the writing of the para graph, he did hot intend any thing in the most dis tant degree disrespeatful to the Government or the' . , • • State. • L o rd Er..LENaoßouoir—f‘ This is the fit opportu pity to say any thing you may think expedient to large in your behalf, and whatever you wish to say the Court will readily hear it." Mr. COBBETT.-.-" After what I have already said,' I do not wish to take up auy more of your Lord. ship's tittle, but place myself on the Consideration of the Court." Mr. Bottoottr, as Counsel for Mr: Hansard, ad dressed the'Court shortly in mitigation of funish-, ment. The ATTORNEY-,GENERAL observed to the Court, that Mr. 'Cobbett was not probably aware that this is the only time that he can be allowed to urge what he may have to say to the Court. , Mr. BOROUGH proceeded, and he' was followed by M r . Gu4yzlr on behalf of BUDD, Which' was near , ly a repetition of what already appeared stated in his affidavit. Air. BOw EN, for BAGSHXW, also addressed .their Lordships in mitigation of punishment. He pres sed on the consideration of the Court the age of this defendant, who is now 60 years old. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL in reply agreed with the several Counsel' for the other defendants, that their cases were very different troll _that of Mr. CORBETT. They had not, like him, en tered. into a public vindication and defence, ' of the libel ; a defence which was almost as bad as the libel itself; su 'far indeed they were different from each other. But although there . may be shades ',of guilt in those offending; yet. all must know that all . who are engaged in the circulation of such libels are amenable to the law. . i To the principal culprit, lie would now more im mediately dire& his attention ; from him the libel emanated, and to him all the profit of it iestilts.— Whatever of malignity exists in, it is to be at tributed to him alone ; its poison belongs to him.—UpOn it, and upon others of the like description, be founded the sources of an unrighte ous profit. In reading this atrocious publication, it was impossible . not to discover in it the mis chievous design 'of forcing the Militia of the Country to a dislike and hatted of their situa- L ion. To excite icsubordination in the ran gy ' and to create and sow the seeds of m utiny among the wrien. It went, through the ale" diurn of the military, to strike a deadly blow at Cl' b•il liberty and civil security, and that at a lime-when the civil liberty of the Country is so threatened, arid when the miiitaiy system of subordinate distipline has never been in the memory of than so veces' , sary andiso .requ i s i te . He'also availed liitnself of per.iod when the study of the Government, Pl j .• when . the wi s h es. o f the, community wentbapd . hand to reride.the situatit7u of,the military not ioltlf laudable ; but•emtnerit-, and to render that of the private and the humblest in the ranks comfortabi ° •, and secure. :•••,• • Here - the Learned Attorney General went WI the libel, and conknented on every part of•it„ attd • . dwelt with considerable severity on that part -which more particularly traduced and calumniated the Ger' man Legien,assertiog in behalf of that gallant bed y° l men, that the ieProaches which the foul libel co t upon . them were as false as they were wicked. I P short, he observed, that at the' time he was holdiag them out to - the hatred of the people, be was raj? ing in their minds • a disgust, if it could 134 raised, against the seryjce in which his 'Mr jesty had been pleased to employ them, while/ on the other hand, this libel had - a direo tea' dency of icsinnating into the minds of our 1114' live soldiety'the'necessity of resistance to lawful, command. • • ....The ATTORNEY GENERAL concluded a very abl e speech with praying for the sake of providing a gainst the effects of such atrocious scurrility,: such jacir merit: as,to the:Couit should- deem meet, adding that the Army looks to the sentence, 'the Gover'' thent lodlts to it . ,:and the Peopl e p ra y f or i t.. _ _ _ . The defendants were ordered to be brought U? on Alondayneit - , when sentence wili be pas 64 1.51i0n - therespeetive parties. The detachments which have lately been drafte4 from the. Foot Guards for foreign service, have th l ! morning again returned tO their duty. abia is sal° t 9 be in consequence of their having been last night countermanded for the present. ;Orders have this morning been issued, for the purpose of notifying to the Hllf;pay Officers Er- i " longing to his Majesty's land forces, that the par rnent of their half-yearly annuities will commence' on Monday next. • Yesterday a ballot was taken at the East India House to determine the qUestions exorteiating ib c owners of the ships Calcutta, Jane Duchess of Ga r ' Du&lits ;from - ally blame respe 6- ,ipg'the loss of those ships, which questions w e . r . c carried in favOur of the owners. ' " • -The accounts from the Cape . of Good trope, W: the East Indialleet; We're gre t to state, afford Sotil melancholy proofs of the impossibility of preven t " ing the piratical expeditions from the Isle Of. Frances to which the British commerce in those'seas is P er* petually exposed. The following prizes were O r ,: ried into that i s l a nd 'i n , t h e course of one moo t" only, February last :—Charlton and United King: -dom,-bound to Bengal ; Victor, sloop - of war ; ./117 nerve, Portuguese f r i gate ; a P ortuguese ship ° 450 tons, half loaded, and with 300,000 dollars en board; brig . .dnn, bound from Brigal to Port .Track - - son"; a grab privateer, and iwo merchantmen, tiCulars unknown. ~_..There also au ived s . i during the same month, ships from 16 t o 20 ions each, and three ships ° about 400 tons eac,b, with cargoes trot., Borcks°%; ► • And about the e n d o f February, or early in Flare''' Bellone and Mi nerve ( now mount i ng ' so frigates, and Vi6lor sloop of war, sailed from theticy on a cruize in Bay of Bengal, w h ere , judi l) . Fromthe former su ccess o f t h e en e my, i t i s inueil feared they will do infinite mischief to the trade. e Tuesday, at a qua r t er b e f ore twe l ve, the B e r was launched frum the Dock-yard at Portsmoua l ! but, , owing to the ' ver y h eavy r ai n, the initneoc! concoursetof persons w hi c h assem bl e d to view 6'l; grand sight, we re c o m p l ete l y wet through. Sloe went off the slip i n a very fine style, and net s single accident of an y ki n d -h appened. The '/30.9_,/w , was, docked immedi a t e ly a f ter t h e l aunc h , for Or pering. • On Sittarday a Thames cutter, on board of wlricb were eight ladies, and six gentlemen who rowe d ' was run down a little above 'Kew-bridge by a salting boat, containing a pleasure party'. Fortunately tit gentlemen were all good swimmers, and on ernerg: ing from,their first plunge, ,sought, with - the o tinos' f wo turxiety, their f ema l e compan i ons i n distress, t' . °t whom were clinging to the bottom of the' cutter; ; of the other four, one was taken up by the sailiOg boat, and the remaining three were supported till th approach of boats, who took them all in, and C ott" vtlred them on shore, without sustaining any ott' er than a severe ducking. PEDESTRIAN/SM.--A Mr. Sanderson, of cross, Hants, started on Monday last, from his' ow" house, for a wager of 500 guineas; to go 72 ntildr a a-,day for seven days, which is three miles an no° tor 'the whole. time, without stopping. The pees'' Arian is an athletic m an , an d h e had finished 1 0 third day's task on Wednesday ; but betting Was t to one on time. Sunchy evening, about eight o'clock, as a yoc.'" of about 17 years ofiage, Was walking along tb' road near , Brooksbouru, Hertfordshire, be Was struck clOwn by the lightnin6 , in a' senseless stat • be was taken to a house in the neighbourhood, sod did not survive an hour. Sunday evening,..ahout eight o'clock, the parapet of the house of M r . lila, grocer, in NVltitettkil)'' l '' , fell from the top of Ow buildiug into zhe str, et Woi', a dreadful crash., Fcrtunately no person vi.ts pe , ;# sing at the time. A hackney - coachman NV .tS fined 40s. and c 0 45, yesterday, for refusing to take a party from -. l ' o Haymarket Theatre t& B.:rnersstreet, tuLier The excuse was, chat the coach was off the which is illegal in 1 • k, t , \\N